Tweety divides the nation! Tweety creates anxiety in a chaotic White House. Uncertainty creates anxiety. Can we find happiness despite Tweety's ugliness as GDP goes up and employment is good?s
"The unhappy states of America: Despite an improving economy, Americans are glum"
by Admin 30 March 2018
"The U.S. economy looks pretty good by most measures: Jobs are plentiful, growth is picking up, prices aren’t rising too quickly, and unemployment is on track this year to hit the lowest level since 1969. But Americans aren’t happy.
In fact, Americans are more glum now than they were during the Great Recession, according to the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. While most Americans do feel the economy is improving, the data shows, they don’t think their overall well-being is going up. It could be a warning sign that Americans are concerned about more than “the economy, stupid.”"
What? Personally, I think Americans feel like they are entitled to happiness somehow. Personally, I think Tweety and his tweets and his ugliness, especially his emphasis on dividing the country creates instability and unhappiness.
"What’s driving the gloominess now is very different from what Gallup and Sharecare, a health and wellness company, saw during the Great Recession. In 2009, a year when 15 states showed declines in well-being, money and financial worries were at the top of the list. Today, emotional and psychological factors dominate. People are not content in their jobs and relationships, and depression diagnoses are at an all-time high in the United States.
Some [I blame Tweety's "politics" and "truthful rhetoric!"] blame politics and polarization for causing people to feel more anxiety and bitterness toward work colleagues and family. There’s a constant narrative of division in the country between Republicans and Democrats, gun-rights supporters and gun-control advocates, the religious and the nonreligious, and so on. And there are near daily headlines about chaos in the White House."
Read the article discussing the poll, but here is one last para for you to digest . . . showing some of the demographics.
"The index also breaks down its findings by race, income and gender. Almost every demographic group dropped in well-being in 2017 — except for wealthy white men. Women, African Americans, Hispanics and lower-income households (those earning less than $48,000 a year) all saw substantial drops in their perception of their well-being."
"Why Money Can't Buy You Happiness"
read at this link - 31 March 2018
https://www.fiintrovert.com/2018/03/31/why-cant-money-buy-you-happiness/
There may be ways money can help you find happiness, however.
See this link for the Gallup Well-Being poll.
http://news.gallup.com/topic/category_wellbeing.aspx
